Arisa Hirano, PhD, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medicine/ International Institute for Integrative Research of Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba
 
I have been appointed as an assistant professor in Faculty of Medicine/International Institute for Integrative Research of Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Japan since 2019 April. My current interest is non-classical function of mammalian Cryptochrome in the regulation of biological function including circadian clock as well as neuronal circuit to generate circadian rhythms in the central nervous system. During graduate student and Post-doc training in University of Tokyo (Dr. Yoshitaka Fukada lab) and UCSF (Dr. Louis Ptacek and Ying-Hui Fu lab), respectively, I was engaging to investigate regulatory mechanism of CRY protein focusing on post-translational modification. 

2019.4-current  Assistant professor/Principal investigator of Sakura-Hirano lab (co-PI)
Faculty of Medicine/ International Institute for Integrative Sleep medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
 -Investigation of neuronal network regulating physiological circadian rhythms

2017.4-2019.3   Project assistant professor
International Institute for Integrative Sleep medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
 -Investigation of neuronal network regulating sleep-wake cycle

2014.4-2017.3   Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
-Investigation of molecular mechanism for short sleep in humans.
-Characterization of a novel variant of clock genes causing Familial Advanced Sleep Phase.

2013.4-2014.3  Project assistant professor 
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
 -Identification of a deubiquitinating enzyme of CRY by interactome analysis.

2013.3 Ph.D. (Science)
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
 - Analysis of ubiquitylation and phosphorylation of CRY using gene modified mice.